The Political compass is wrong. ALL our mainstream models of politics and ideology are embarrassingly wrong. After outlining how these models are flawed, thi...
Yeah - it’s definitely an improvement, but still has gaps.
For example, I’d say I’m a anarcho-communist (though not in any practical sense) - revolution without the significant pre-work to dismantle inequality in economic and political power, a reconsolidation of power into autocracy is near-inevitable. In practical terms, this pushes me right up the authoritarian axis in the short term (strong government power to counter and dismantle the existing authority structures), but more anarchist (libertarian) in the longer-term once democracy is shored up - the distinction is entirely situational, and I’m left at the middle of that scale.
Yeah - it’s definitely an improvement, but still has gaps.
For example, I’d say I’m a anarcho-communist (though not in any practical sense) - revolution without the significant pre-work to dismantle inequality in economic and political power, a reconsolidation of power into autocracy is near-inevitable. In practical terms, this pushes me right up the authoritarian axis in the short term (strong government power to counter and dismantle the existing authority structures), but more anarchist (libertarian) in the longer-term once democracy is shored up - the distinction is entirely situational, and I’m left at the middle of that scale.